Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the appropriate word.
Colonial settler Lord Maurice Egerton was
___(1)___ down twice by the woman he loved, even after building a castle especially for her. Heartbroken, he banned
___(2)___ from the 52-room castle and its 100-acre grounds. "He pinned notices on trees warning that the grounds were out of
___(3)___ for women and that any woman who disobeyed the notice risked being shot," recalled Mr. Robert Onyiego 77, a worker on the estate. Men visiting the peer, the 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton, were asked to leave their wives several kilometers
___(4)___ "He also banned his male workers
___(5)___ ever bringing their wives to their servant's quarters," Mr. Onyiego said. Lord Egerton went even further, banning chickens and
___(6)___ from the castle and its grounds because the aristocratic lady who had turned him down had complained that his previous home was as small as a chicken coop and like a dog's kennel.
So to impress the lady, who has never been named
___(7)___ who was brought up in a castle, Lord Egerton built the sumptuous home for her near Njoro, modeled on his family's mansion in Knutsford, Cheshire. But when it was ready, his sweetheart revealed she had fallen in love with another man, and in
___(8)___ of a brief visit to Kenya, she refused his offer of marriage for a second time. The heartbroken peer then declared his estate a no-go
___(9)___ for women and spent the rest of his life alone until his
___(10)___ four years later, in 1958.
